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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Worldwide listings of wireless hotspots

Hotels, airports, restaurants and many other businesses offer free
or paid wireless Internet access via hotspots. Each of the services below
listed below offer searchable listings of these public hotspots. When planning
your next holiday or business trip, use these services to locate hotspots on a
map and get the Wi-Fi
information needed to access them.

The JiWire search engine supports dozens of countries
and indexes both free and paid hotspots. Search by street address, airport code,
postal code or name (SSID) of the
access point. Alternatively, browse listings by business type (e.g., airport,
hotel and cafe).
Several other popular Wi-Fi hotspot online listings are powered by the JiWire
database

The Wi-Fi ZONE Finder is a an official service of the Wi-Fi
Alliance. This directory indexes only hotspot providers that have registered for
the ZONE program. Such a certification system helps keep inactive hotspots, or
hotspots of lesser quality, out of the index.

This directory is geared toward free
hotspots. (Some of these otherwise free locations may require a store purchase,
however.) Worldwide listings are organized both geographically and by business
type.

WiFinder is privately held company that indexes
hotspots worldwide. WiFinder can be searched by location and by protocol type
(e.g., 802.11b or 802.11g). WiFinder lists fewer
total hotspots than some competitive services, but it may contain some entries
that other